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Read more on What are HACCP and PCQI? Why both are important for your business
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What are HACCP and PCQI? Why both are important for your business

In the last 15 years, food safety regulations have become stricter. As a result, food and beverage companies now invest in food safety training and HACCP/PCQI certification courses to meet their legal responsibility. This has resulted in safer supply chains. Due to the complicated nature of food safety regulations, registering for the right food safety…

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Recent Salmonella Outbreak, Ensuring Cantaloupe Safety

The recent cantaloupe Salmonella outbreak has dominated headlines in the food industry over the past month, prompting concerns about cantaloupe safety and pre-cut cantaloupe purchased for the holiday season. Furthermore, food safety consultants know well that ensuring produce safety is challenging due to the nature of raw and perishable agricultural products. Consequently, ensuring cantaloupe safety…

Read more on 10 Tips and Best Practices to Develop a Food Safety Plan for SQF 9 Food Manufacturing. Introducing the new SQF Addendum (July 2023)
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10 Tips and Best Practices to Develop a Food Safety Plan for SQF 9 Food Manufacturing. Introducing the new SQF Addendum (July 2023)

Food businesses and storage warehouses seek Food Safety Certification to show compliance with regulations, to sell their products to large retailers, to export, to align with their supply chain requirements and to guarantee safe food to their customers. In North America, in Europe and in the South Pacific, Safe Quality Food (SQF) is a certification…

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How To Control Extraneous Hazardous Materials And Filth In Foods

If your activity involves food manufacturing or importing food, you follow the Codex HACCP guidelines. Adopted in 1969, the General Principles of Food Hygiene have recently been revised to reflect the current understanding of food safety risks. The document comprises two parts: the first section describes Good Hygiene Practices for primary food producers and post-farm…

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Food Defense Plan Compliance under FSMA

Initially published on May 27, 2016, US FDA’s Mitigation Strategies to Protect Food Against Intentional Adulteration regulation (“the IA rule”) aims at preventing intentional adulteration from acts intended to cause wide-scale harm to public health, including acts of terrorism targeting the food supply. The rule applies to domestic and foreign companies that are required to…

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Understanding the updated Listeria Policy (Canada)

Health Canada has recently released The Listeria Policy (2023), a regulatory document that supersedes the previous policy from 2011. Prepared by Health Canada, in collaboration with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the policy focuses on the safety of Ready-To-Eat foods (RTE) offered for consumption in Canada…

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US FDA Releases A New Edition of the Food Code

First published in 1997, the US FDA just released the 2022 edition of the Food Code, thereby marking 30 years of the FDA Food Code in its current format. Written with the current understanding of food safety and science principles, the consumer health guideline (“the model code”) ensures that food products purchased at retail or…